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IBM Project Manager Certificate: My Student Review

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Summary review The IBM Project Manager Professional Certificate is a good CAPM® alternative or course to use towards your CAPM prep. If you are planning on a career in tech, do the IBM IT Project Manager Certificate instead. However… it’s really important to choose a good course. You’re in the right place.

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Is the IBM IT Project Manager Certificate worth it?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I have pre-registered to take the course, so I’ll update this article later with my experiences. I’ve done a lot of project management training in my 20+ years as a project manager, and those courses helped me understand the skills, tools and techniques required to succeed leading projects.

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5 Steps to Get the (Right) Software Engineering Job on a Top Technical Team

Planio

So you want a software engineering job at Facebook/Apple/Amazon/Google/Netflix? It’s every software engineer’s dream to work with one of the top technical teams in the world. So how do you get a software engineering job at one of these companies? Self-taught vs. school: Do top tech teams really care?

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What is a technical project manager? (And why you should think about becoming one)

Planio

As products become more complex, technical project managers have quickly become the holy grail for growing businesses. Technical project managers (TPM) bridge the gap between understanding what’s technically possible in a project and managing the resources, timelines, and expectations to get it done. First, learn the basics.

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Agile Laws to Help with Transformation

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Agile Laws in Software Development On many occasions, working with agile teams has amplified existing organizational, technical, and cultural challenges in many organizations. In a remote working situation, to make matters worse, there is a compound effect due to the increased communication overhead.

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Learning Scrum using Minecraft Education

Scrum.org

It is a special version of Minecraft used by thousands of teachers and trainers to convey their course content. And then the experiment began with a nice and tidy little community of practice composed of “fresh out of school software engineers”. Exploring technical debt. Attention to technical excellence.

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Where to Start with Scrum? Is Value Stream Mapping Your Answer?

Scrum.org

To delve deeper into how Scrum's principles can be amplified with Kanban, offering more metrics and transparency to track improvements and enhance the flow of value, consider our Professional Scrum With Kanban course. Value Stream Mapping (VSM) complements Scrum's emphasis on transparency.

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